The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...

                                
                                  And wysliche folewen euere þi wille,
                                
                                  Sikerliche knowen and folfulle
                                
                                  Þe louereden of þi nome and blis,
                                
                                  Mi stat ordeynen as þi wille is.
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                                  Al þin askyng and þi wille
                                
                                  Euere do me, lord, folfille;
                                
                                  As me may most in soule nede
                                
                                  Þi wissynge help to spede.
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                                  Mi wei to þe beo siker and riht,
                                
                                  And harde i-fastnet wiþ þi miht,
                                
                                  Þat I in weole þe þonke so
                                
                                  And euere beo pacient in wo,
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                                  Þat I ne falle neuer mo
                                
                                  In nouþur of hem boþe two;
                                
                                  Ne þat I neuere glad ne be
                                
                                  But in þing þat lykeþ þe,
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                                  Ne serwe neuere bote for þing
                                
                                  Þat torne þe to mis-lykyng,
                                
                                  Ne þat I neuere desire to plesen
                                
                                  No mon falsliche ne displesen
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                                  Bote þe, deore lord, al-one,
                                
                                  ffor no drede of monnes mone.
                                
                                  ¶ Al erþliche þing beo vyl to me,
                                
                                  Lord, for þe loue of þe,
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                                  And alle þinges þat þyne be
                                
                                  Leof and deore mak hem me,
                                
                                  And þou al-one, Almihti kyng,
                                
                                  Out and ouer al oþur þyng
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                                  Euer beo most in my lykyng,
                                
                                  And wiþ me derworþest ouer alle þing.
                                
                                  ¶ Alle Ioyes beo nuyous to me
                                
                                  Þat ben, lord, wiþ-outen þe.
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                                  In alle trauayles þat ben for þe
                                
                                  Euer-more al my lykyng be.
                                
                                  Restes alle þat ne ben in þe,
                                
                                  Anuy and trauayle beo þei to me.
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                                  Euere myn herte to þe þou dresse,
                                
                                  Mi sunne to clanse wiþ serefulnesse.
                                
                                  Boxum me make wiþ-oute feyning,
                                
                                  And glad wiþ-outen ryotyng,

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Title: The minor poems of the Vernon ms. ... (with a few from the Digby mss. 2 and 86) ...
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Publication: London,: Pub. by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., for the Early English Text Society,; 1892-1901.
Subject terms: English poetry

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